Improvement in cheese boxes as a new aetiole of manufacture



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Letters Patent lVo. 63,267, (lated ffm'ch 26, l1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHEESE BOXES AS A NEW ARTICLE OI' MANUFAGTURE.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, NATHANIEL LEWIS and FRIEND LEWIS, of' Adams,Jefferson county, 'New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Cheese Boxes; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilledin the art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The present invention relates to cheese boxes manufactured from paper,card-board, and other similar mate- Arial; and the invention consists ina novel manner of forming the head to both the body and the cover of thei box, whereby great strength, firmness, portability, and durability areobtained, and moulding prevented, as will be obvious from the followingldetail description of a box made laccording to our invention, referencebeing had to the accompanying plate of drawings, in which- Figure 1 is aview of one head of the box, with it partially broken out upon one sideto more fully illus trate the mode of forming the same.

Figure 2, a central transverse vertical section; and

Figure 3, a view of the material as eut from the side and bottom of abox according to our invention.

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A, in the drawings, represents the body of a box, which is formed of astrip of paper or card-board, or other similar material, bent into'theproper shape therefor, `with its two ends properly secured togetherwhere they moet, or are overlapped, as the case may be. B, the head tothe body of the box, which head is formed of three thicknesses or layersof material, firmly secured together cnc upon another by means of'cement, or any other suitable adhesive material, the inner and outerlayers or thicknesses being separated by the intermediate layers C, madefrom the same piece of material of which the body oi' the box iscomposed by cutting one edge oi" the same in the form shown in fig. 3,or in such a form that when bent at a more or less rightangle to thebody A a complete cover will be produced to suchend ofthe box body. Thenapplying the outer and inner layers a bottom or head is obtained ofgreat strength, firmness, andi durability. The head to the cover of thebox is formed in a manner similar to the body, as above described. To'Yrender the box water-prooil any suitable water-proof' varnish may bcused, and the joints may be sealed by covering them with cloth, renderedwaterproof in any suitable manner. It is not necessary that the pointsof the lap should touch or meet each other. In gs. l and 3 amodification is sho'wn in red lines, in which the laps are only about.one-half the size of those previously described, thus leaving a centralspace, which can be filled with cuttings or waste paper.

A great advantagev in using paper boxes for packing cheese is that theporousness of the paper will allow i the radiation of moisture from thecheese, thus preventing moulding or fungus growth. The high price oftimber, and the consequent value of' wooden boxes, will render our boxof great importance to the trade. ts chcapness, utility, durability, andportability will prove its practicability.

We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A s an articleof manufacture, a cheese box constructed oi"v paper, provided with aremovable head B and a head B, permanently secured to the laps C, whichare made in one piece with the side of the box, and secured betweendisks D, substantially asdescribed.

The above specification of, our invention signed by us this 15th day ofJanuary, 1867.

' NATHANIEL LEWIS, Witnesses i FRIEND LEWIS.

FRANK STONE, DANIEL Fox, 2d.

